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8.8 <tt class="module">xml.dom.pulldom</tt> --
         Support for building partial DOM trees</a>
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<span class="versionnote">New in version 2.0.</span>

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<tt class="module">xml.dom.pulldom</tt> allows building only selected portions of a
Document Object Model representation of a document from SAX events.

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  <td><var></var><big>[</big><var>documentFactory</var><big>]</big><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
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